Wendy Toynton

Wendy Toynton (see also Gwendolyn Toynton) is a former employee of the University of Canterbury, and worked as a FRENZ (Facilitating Research co-operation between Europe and New Zealand) Web Administrator at the National Centre for Research on Europe. She is publishing-editor of the Primordial Traditions journal, and having left Christchurch following the Canterbury Earthquakes, now resides in Australia. She is also the director of Primordial Traditions a company in New Zealand. She holds a BA in Religious Studies (University of Canterbury), a BA (Hons)(Religious Studies, University of Canterbury), a NZQA Level 3 & 4 (National College of Multimedia & Technology, and an NZQA Level 7 Computing (Axcel Institute).

She is the winner of the Ashton Wylie Award for Literary Excellence 2009 in the mind, body, spirit genre, presented by Auckland Mayor Honourable John Banks and well known writer and journalist Steve Braunias.

Publications
Main Publications:
 * Northern Traditions (2010)
 * Primordial Traditions Compendium (UK:Twin Serpents Ltd) -
 * Collection of New Zealand Poetry & Prose 2002 (NZ) – Love Under Will
 * New Dawn Magazine (AUS) – Mercury Rising: The Life & Works of Juilus Evola
 * New Imperium (UK) – Ancient Goddess or Political Goddess
 * New Dawn Magazine Special Issue No#4 (AUS) – The Age of Darkness: Prophecies of the Kali Yuga
 * New Dawn Magazine (AUS) – Monks and Magic
 * Ancestral Folkways (USA) - Of Wolves & Men: The Berserker and the Vratya

Primordial Traditions Articles (NZ):
 * The Primordial Tradition
 * Kashi: Shiva and the Eternal City
 * Mara and the Vinaya
 * Dyadic Approaches to the Divine
 * Dead but Dreaming: Oneiromancy and Dream Incubation
 * The Sacred in Hindu Aesthetic Theory
 * The Royal Art Revisted
 * Tantra: Fifth Veda or Anti Veda?
 * Does Practice Make one perfected: The Role of g Tum-mo in the Six Yogas of Naropa
 * Clarifying the Clear Light
 * Divine Mortality: Nataraja, Shankara and Higher Conscious in the imagery of Shiva
 * Contemporary Shamanism
 * Seats of Power